Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best character actors, brogueish Barry (Going My Way) Fitzgerald, took to NBC's air last week on his first program. The new weekly series (His Honor, the Barber, Tues. 7:30-8 p.m., E.S.T.) he appeared in was fashioned of homespun, with an expensive tailor's touch. The character he plays is sure fire for cornfed philosophizing: a small-town judge who doubles in hair-clipping. The resemblance between this new series and another well-wearing job cut to the same cloth, radio's 13-year-old One Man's Family...
...Touché. In Honolulu, surf Fisherman Manuel Silva, who had innocently turned his back on a swordfish, was taken to a hospital and treated for a "deep puncture" in the seat of the pants...
Brazil's President Getulio Dornelles Vargas had not lost his touch. Last week, with a flourish of his wily pen, he brightened the chances of Government-backed Candidate General Eurico Gaspar Dutra in the approaching (Dec. 2) presidential elections, rocked opposition candidate General Eduardo Gomes back on his heels and left the Government's uneasy Communist allies stunned. A presidential decree 1) advanced the date of state elections to coincide with the presidential elections, 2) required state governors to resign and stand for election if they want to succeed themselves...
...brothers Alsop plan to send each other abroad for three months out of every year, to keep their worldly touch...
Small Fry Coddler. He bought small bond issues of rural school districts, which no one else would touch. When lack of bids threatened the whole Golden Gate Bridge project, A.P. bought the bonds. He also coddled the small fry: any regularly employed person can borrow up to $300 on his signature alone. When the Securities and Exchange Commission objected to some of his operations, A.P. defended himself by attacking. He haled the SEC into court...